Meeting narrative therapy MNT24

This short course takes as foundational text the book of Alice Morgan. Lecturers use select aspects of the book and add to it from their own experience or other sources. Part One: What is narrative therapy? 1. Understanding our lives through stories 2. Stories in the therapeutic context 3. Externalising conversations: Naming the problem 4. Tracing the history of the problem 5. Exploring the effects of the problem 6. Situating the problem in context: Deconstruction 7. Discovering unique outcomes 8. Tracing the history and meaning of the unique outcome and naming an alternative story Part Two: Thickening the alternative story 9. Re-membering conversations 10. Therapeutic documentation 11. Therapeutic letters 12. Rituals and celebrations 13. Expanding the conversation 14. Outsider-witness groups and definitional ceremonies Participants will have to mark each lesson complete before being allowed to continue with the next lesson.